Biography

I am a research fellow based at Edinburgh Napier University and affiliated to the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. My research builds on my PhD project looking at interactions between health and social care using a large linked administrative data cohort. This cohort contains over 1.1million individuals over the age of 65 in Scotland from 2011-2016 with information on demographics, prescribed medicines, unscheduled health care use, and any records identified in the Scottish Government collected Social Care Survey.

Based in the Urban Big Data Centre at the University of Glasgow my PhD aimed to identify the associations between social care and unscheduled health care use and how geographic status, multimorbidity status, and deprivation status influence any associations. This project is achieved by analysis of data in a secure, safe haven environment.

My background is in clinical nursing having worked in Acute Medical Admissions and Medical High Dependency at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. I also worked part-time at NHS24 as a Nurse Practitioner during my PhD studies.

I use R and RStudio to wrangle, model, visualise, and communicate data analysis. I predominately use tidyverse tools but also data.table for larger datasets. I wrote my thesis using a mix of RMarkdown and LaTeX code.

In previous lives I have been a soldier in the 1st Battalion the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons, & Camerons), a (failed) musician, and a freelance assistant director/locations scout for media companies.

I’m married to Shona and we have two awesome kids - Seumas and Catherine.

• D.Henderson@napier.ac.uk
• 9 Sighthill Court, Edinburgh, EH11 4BN